Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
History is too important to be left to the historians.
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.